CREATING A MANUAL PALLIATIVE CARE TO TRAIN USF

SUMMARY To family doctors is essential to recognize, assist and follow up patients in their community with life-threatening diseases, to referral and counter referral to Palliative Care specialists. Knowledge required will be assessed and reassessed through training, we will outfit a contextualized on patient management manual. In this postgrduated course of palliative care includes an Extension and Community Action. OBJECTIVE: Training at USF using the Manual created by teachers of the course as a guide to basic care. METHODOLOGY: descriptive prospective observational study; SAMPLE: 19 Family Doctors with their teams, each in charge of about 4500 inhabitants, 85,000 indirect beneficiaries of communities will have access to quality care- Activities: Workshops: training graduate students to become trainers, Training Family Doctors, Delivery Manual, Continuous communication with Family Doctors about patients who are treated in our hospital, reference and counter reference. RESULTS: Medical Doctors with training, monitoring, and counter-reference system to palliative care teams Clínicas Hospital, patients in their community, following home possibly until the end. CONCLUSIONS: Using the manual and training Family Doctors on the care of patients with diseases that threaten life, a contribution that this University carries dignifying care at the end of life and proposing issues that were not addressed in undergraduate by absence in the curriculum one field of palliative care, so this activity is a contribution to society, an University mission.